oh god there's petals everywhere

[lovely_wind]

Who: EVERYONE
What: CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
Where: Outside on the mansion grounds where there are cherry blossoms that have magically not finished blooming yet this late into April
When: RIGHT NOW???
Warnings: Rated S for SHOJO

Stadiums and tournaments and rankings were all well and good, but they were lacking things that Flurrie felt were far too important to go ignored. Style! Beauty! Grace! Culture! This place needed more of it. Fortunately, with spring in full force, she had a fantastic idea to bring everyone together to celebrate just those things!

And so, a message appears on the bulletin board:



Underneath it was more information, including dates and a request to contact her if the reader were interested in hosting a booth at the festival.

When the day arrived for the festivities, the mansion's inhabitants will find a lovely grove of cherry blossoms decorated with streamers, flower arrangements, and numerous booths waiting for them. Where did Flurrie get all this? It is a mystery.

((OOC: Open mingle log! The booths can be absolutely anything you want- food, games, stuff for sale, magic tricks, etc, and your character is free to host one if they would be so inclined. It's not as big as past festivals obviously, but Flurrie tried.))

Comments

... he gots a alcohol, i dunno...

[babylonbadass]

Jet had found himself a plastic cup of sake. How he managed to get alcohol at his age was anyone's guess, but he got it.

He was wandering around with the intention of finding Wave--to surprise her--but grew antsy, so he stood beside a booth at the far end of the festival and started sipping.

"BLEH, PEHHH!!" He sputtered. "Ugh, this stuff is strong!"

...And he shrugged it off and resumed sipping.

[mach_n_roll]

"You're not gonna drink and fly, are ya?"

Who's that? Where's it coming from? The sprinkle of pink petals from a shuddering branch overhead gives a clue, and that clue is the large blue hedgehog perched on it.

"Long time no see, Jet!"

[babylonbadass]

"Who said that?!" Jet squawked as he flailed and looked around for the source of that cocky voice. "Gaww! Sonic! You're here, too?!"

Blast it! He knew there was lots and lots of teasing for him on the horizon.

[mach_n_roll]

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna tell the teacher!" He adds, hopping down from his perch.

"There aren't any teachers to tell anymore, anyway. So when did you get here? Not long enough for Wave to find you, I guess."

She'd be squawking at him to put the booze down right now, if she were.

[babylonbadass]

Jet crossed his arms impertinently.

"A few days ago! The Hands gave me a room and it took a while to clean up! No, I haven't seen Wave. I'll find her here, though, I know it. I came here to find her but thought I'd get settled first, that's all!"

No, he was not putting off tracking her down out of fear of a lecture. Not at all. Nope.

[mach_n_roll]

"Huh. I thought we wouldn't get anyone new on this island, after the moon destroyed everything."

He eyes the sake himself, but decides against it. Alcohol generally tastes awful to him, and wouldn't do much anyway.

[babylonbadass]

"What? A MOON destroyed the school?! All I found was a giant, black void dome! What the heck were you guys summoning a MOON for? A weird kind of skill training? 'Kick the moon before it explodes the world' sort of thing? That was the point of the school, wasn't it? Getting better at fighting?"

Jet was clearly confused. He remembered the school a little and knew it had a problem with constant crazy situations, but what the heck?

[mach_n_roll]

Black void dome? What does THAT mean?

"Whoa, simmer down, squawk box, we didn't summon anything! Actually we did whatever we could to send it back before it hit us! Yeah, we... weren't exactly successful," He amends with a shrug, "but at least we're alive!"

[babylonbadass]

"Wha...? If you didn't summon it, why did a moon decide to hit YOUR school, of all places?"

Because that's really weird. Jet was glad he wasn't there to see it. And he was glad Wave was still alive...

[mach_n_roll]

"That's a good question! Our old physics teacher mentioned something about an evil mask behind it, but we never actually found anything like that. I'm pretty sure was just losing his marbles... anyway, we all woke up afterwards with a note from the Hands telling us how much we sucked at saving the world. You can kinda guess how well that went down."

[babylonbadass]

Jet scratched his head as he listened. So weird.

"So let me get this straight: you had a giant moon thing headed on a collision course with the place, you failed to stop it from annihilating you, and now... there is no school but a ragged mansion? Where's the logic in that?!"

[mach_n_roll]

"Hey, logic doesn't have anything to do with it. It's just what happened." He replies with a shrug. If he seems blasé about how batshit it all sounded, then one need not look any farther than his own world. If there isn't some batshit apocalypse every other month there, people start to get nervous.

"I'd blame Eggman on this, but he was too busy gettin' married. Heh, now THAT's the point where all logic breaks down."

[babylonbadass]

Jet nearly fell flat back from the impact of the shocking news.

"GYAHH, Eggman?! MARRIED?!? What is in the water in this schoo-- mansi-- PLACE?! This is all so WEIRD!!"

And weird by Mobius standards, too. Eggman... married...

[mach_n_roll]

"I know, right? He married Flurrie. Don't worry, she's around, and you'll know her when you see her. Thing is, that's not the weirdest part!"

[babylonmechanic]

Wave was having a boring day. Every day here was boring. There was nothing interesting to do, no ruins to explore, no treasure to grab, and building materials were in relatively short supply. What was a genius mechanic to do when there was nothing to tinker with?

She was going to content herself with just getting outdoors for a while, when she heard a very familiar sounding angry squawking. "What the--?!"

She bolted towards the sound. And she found Jet. With booze.

"JET THE HAWK, you PUT THAT DOWN," she angrily demanded. Nice to see you too.

[babylonbadass]

"GWAHH!!! Wave!!" he exclaimed, spilling half his drink.

"Wave, uhh... What, this? It's only cider!! Geeze! And glad to see you, too, sheesh!"

Obvious lies.

[babylonmechanic]

"Right. And do you normally shriek like that when it's just cider?" she asked, knowing full well that that. Was not cider.

She rubbed her forehead. "How did you get here?"

[babylonbadass]

He sulked as he brushed the spilled drink off his chest fluff.

"I came looking for you, but all that was left of the school was a giant, creepy black dome of energy or something. I thought you guys might have put up a shield and were inside. But this doesn't look like the school at all!"

He gestured to the sky and back at the mansion.

"Where the heck ARE we, Wave?!"

[babylonmechanic]

"How did you even FIND me?" Wave asked. "Last time I saw you we were at Gigan Rocks checking out some ruins. Not that I don't appreciate you coming looking for me, but... How?"

[babylonbadass]

"Storm told me about it," he explained. "He said he stayed at it for a while, though why ANYONE would WANT to go to school is beyond me!"

He turned around to look at the mansion and flailed his arms wildly.

"What the heck happened here?! This isn't no school! It's a rickety mansion! Don't tell me you still LEARN things here?"

[babylonmechanic]

"You're not making any sense," Wave told him. "Storm hasn't been here in all the time I've been here! What the heck are you talking about?! The school got destroyed months ago!"

[babylonbadass]

Jet raised an eyebrow at her. The hell...?

"Wha...? It was a long time ago, I dunno! Said you were here dating Sonic, of all people!" He backed away from her defensively. "But if he was here BEFORE you were here, how did he know you were here now? Is this place some sort of time void or something?!"

He guessed Storm might've fallen off his airboard too many times, but his directions to the school were accurate...

[babylonmechanic]

"Excuse YOU?!" she declared angrily and with a hint of embarrassment. "ME dating SONIC?! Are you out of your mind?!"

[babylonbadass]

"AWWK--!!" Jet shielded his face with a forearm. "Don't yell at me!! Storm's the one who said it!"

[babylonmechanic]

"Then he's going to get a smack upside his head next time I see him," Wave simply replied, grumbling.